Spearheaded by Amanda Lawrence in Washington DC and Katy Ryan in New York, the practice at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe covers consumer finance matters at the forefront of state and federal law banking regulation. Located in Santa Monica, Clint Rockwell naturally displays a strong involvement in California-specific lending matters, but is overall a strong advisor in licensing and compliance issues. Good range of financial services issues and products, including investigations, disputes, system advice and enforcement matters. Offering a full service of regulatory advice to major financial institutions but also fintech companies, the group is adept in consumer finance promoting cutting edge financial technology due to a strong presence in innovative payment and digital asset systems, digital payments and buy-now-pay-later schemes. Washington DC- based Jeffrey Naimon features prominently in the group’s fair lending matters.
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- 'Great work product and subject matter expertise with former regulators.'
Key clients
- Block Inc.
- Capital One
- Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC
- Continental Finance Company
- Deinde Financial, LLC (Integra)
- Energy Loan Network LLC
- Evolve Bank & Trust
- GoodLeap
- Opportunity Financial, LLC (OppFi)
- Renew Financial Group
- Self Financial, Inc.
- Ygrene Energy Fund
Work highlights
Assisted Evolve Bank & Trust with an incident response following a sophisticated cybersecurity attack, including developing legal strategies to navigate the nuanced regulatory challenges and breach notification obligations in the financial sector.
Represented Opportunity Financial in its ongoing true-lender dispute with the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, which alleges that OppFi has violated state limits on interest rates.
Advised Block on federal and state consumer regulatory matters.
Practice head
Amanda Lawrence; Katy Ryan
Other key lawyers
Clint Rockwell; Jedd Bellman; Jeffrey Naimon